Device for automatically regulating the flow of the head products or other condensation products proceeding from distilling and rectifying apparatus.



E. GUILLAUME. DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY EEGULATING THE FLQW OF THE HEAD PRODUCTS OR OTHER UONDENSATION PRODUOTS PROOEEDING FROM DISTILLING AND RBCTIFYING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.12, 1910.

Patpted Jime 6, 1911.

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EMILE GUILLAUME, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY REGULATING THE FLOW OF THE HEAD PRODUCTS OR OTHER CONDENSATION LPRODUCTS IPROCEEDING FROM DISTILLING AND RECTI- FYING APPARALUS.

original application filed April 11, 1907, Serial No. 367.697.

Serial No. 543,600.

or other condensation products proceeding! ap mratusc z t'roin distilling and rectifying and l do hereby declare the following to be a tall. clear. and exact description of the same.

The present application is a division of an t application, Serial No. 367,697 filed April 11 1907, for Letters Patent of the United States.

This invention relates to a device for eonat the testmr! Joined supply trolling the delivery of the products condensed in distillingapparatus, and in re ti tying, liquids, of the delivery of the head products of alcoholic liquids, an operation in which the vapors ot the head products are titst led all the condensation or nearly all the coninto a condenser and then into a supplementary condenser. or refrigerator, for the purpose of condensing the portion still con densahle which'has been carried over with the gases, and of discharging these gases into the atmosphere The device in question is devised to admit of theremoval or the separation of the liquid condensed in the condenser and in the retrigerator in invariable quantity for a control predctcrn'iiuecl at will, and this moreover in such a manner that the condensed product proceeding from the supplementary I will healways completed automatically by the product procced 'ig from the condenser. The lower part at a certain height above the lower part of the condenser in Stlfl] a manner that the product resulting from the preliminary condensation effected can never under any circumstances return to the refrigerator. The product condensed in the condenser is led to the outlet pipe which proceeds from the refrigerator to the control cock ot' the exit pipe placed at the testing point by a branch pipe so arranged thi it can he placed sufficiently below the exit of the liquid condensed in the supplementary condenser or refrigerator that the two 'l'ollowing conditions may be fultilled: First in the case in which the quaucondenser, or refrigerator.

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i according to the and especially the controlling this in a manner the condensation taking place in the supp mentary condenser, or refrigerator, which is way of example Specification of Letters Patent.

itutent'ed June 6, 1911.. Divided and this application filed February 12,

refrigerator; is ll l--llllil 'ltllt to ci'irrespond coniplctcly tothe extraction effected by the opening of the control cock of the delivery pipe, the missing, quantity will be automatically supplied by a delivery from the emidcnsed product proceedirur from the condenser. Hceond, inversely it the quantity of the product condensed in the refrigerator is greater than the [low which has to be ell'ected predetern iined control of the exit cock, the excess of the product condensed in the refrigerator will combine with the product condensed in the condenser. In consequence of this arrangeuu-nt, the cock which regulates the outlet: and the delivery point; is set for a predeterwhich can be selected at will, this delivery and this supply remaining invariable even in the case when the passage of an excess of water to the condenser takes place that is to say, when practically even dcnsation takes place in the condenser, and entirely independent of necessary for the exhaustion of the gases.

The accompanying drawing illustrates by a construction which can serve for the arrangement of the new device.

The vapors which come from the upper part of the distillation or rectification column 1 proceed to the lower part of the condenser The vapors which are not condensed during their passage through this condenser 2 pass by the pipe 16 to the upper part of the supplementary condenser or refrigerator 3. in which the particles which are still condcnsable are condensed, and the gases escape freely to the outer air through the exhaustpipe 15. The condensation and cooling water is supplied through the cock 1] into the little auxiliary cooler 8, flows through the pipe 12 into the supplementary condenser 3, and then through the pipe 13 into the condenser 2, and finally escapes from this latter throughthe pipe 14. The cock 7 serves to control the outlet of the condensed product which is delivered to the testing point 9.

The discharge pip t o of the supplementary condenser 3 possesses a tubular automatically the is to say in the case in *water passing into the condenser 2.

. the refrigerator connection 5 which is connected to the lower 2 in such a manner that branch pipe with the 17 located low 5 may satisfy following two conditons-z to the junction 5 of the tubular conduit 6 the totality of the excess of liquid which is necessary to correspond completely to ,the outflow controlled by the cock 7 in .the case in which the quantity of liquid flowing through the tube 4 becomes insufficient, or even also in the case when there is no liquid at all passing through this pipe 4; and consequently it serves as an overflow for the pipe 5 in the case when too much liquid flows through the pipe 4, that which the condensation; in the supplementary condenser 3 ex-' ceeds the outflow which is predetermined by the extent to which. the cock 7 is opened. In this manner on the one hand there is obtained the free exit of the cold gases from 3, and on the other hand a constant flow at the exit testing point, to an extent predetermined by the opening of the cock 7 even in the event of a great excess of This construction forms the essential novelty of the new process in question, which moreover may easily be applied in all other modifications which may be devised by those skilled in the art.

The outlet 15, which serves for the free escape of the cooled gases, is placed in the present instance at a point at one side of the pipe at, and in practice is of course a little above the connection of this pipe 4: with the 1 supplementary condenser 3. V This arrangement has for its object to condense, before art of the condenser he connection of this t fi is effected at a point enough in order that the branch Firstly it supplies reaching. the part 15, any remaining vapors Finally in the 5;;is independent of the retrogression efiected l even in very small quantity whichmight escape from the alcohol already condensed, but notwithstanding not completely cooled, which alcohol vapors would arrive through the branch pipe 5 from the condenser 2.

case in which the connection seams by the pipe 10 in the column, as is the case in the construction illustrated in the drawing, the retrogression pipe 10 is placed a little above the engagement of the branch pipe into the condenser 52, so as to insure with absolute security the supply of the pipe 6 by means of the branch pipe 5 in a constan manner, and toinsure that it is only the overflow which returns into the column 1. This arrangement possessesin this case the advantage that the condensed product collected in the condenser 2 is more or less cooled before being introduced into the pipe 6 through the branch pipe 5.,

What I claim is:

An improved device for automatically regulating the flow of the head products, or other condensation products, proceeding from distilling and rectifying apparatus, said device comprisin a condenser (2) connected to the top of the distilling or rectifying apparatus (1); a refrigerator (3), the lower part of which is placed above the lower part of the said condenser; an exit pipe (4-43) for the products proceeding from the said refrigerator; a regulating cock (7) fitted upon said exit pipe: a branch-pipe (5) connecting said exit pipe, at a point above said regulating cock, to the condenser, at a point below the connecting point of said branch-pipe to the refrigerator; a retrogression pipe (10) connecting the upper part of the column of said rectifying apparatus (1) to the'condenser (2); and an outlet pipe (15)for the free escape of the incondensable gases, said pipe connecting the bottom of the refrigerator (3 at a point a little above the connecting point of the exit pipe (4) to the said condenser.

In testimonywhereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMILE GUII Lanna. 1 

